Modality Reference and Sense An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

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Editore: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2001

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Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. A proposed solution to the problems of substitutivity of coreferential terms. 2. Others on the problems of substitutivity. 3. Rigid and non-rigid designators. 4. Some consequences. 5. Mill, Frege and others on proper names. 6. Definite descriptions. Appendix: On Kaplan's logic of demonstratives. Bibliography. Index. "The book points to a new logic of singular designators based upon a close analysis of work in the area by contemporary philosophers of language. The philosophers range from Frege, Russell, Quine, Strawson and Dummett to Kripke, Hintikka, Plantinga, Kaplan, Donnellan, Searle and Burge. "It is generally taken for granted that proper names are rigid designators, having no meaning content, which explains their intranslatability into other languages. However, they do have their modes of presentation that must constitute their sense. There is little room for contradiction here in admitting that proper names have a sense which does not amount to meaning. One of the advantages of this position is that it blocks the emergence of the Kripkean puzzle about belief by accepting different belief contents corresponding to a variation in the senses of the names involved. "Is Kripke's distinction between rigid and non-rigid designators finally valid' the author asks, questioning the corollaries that are supposed to follow from the distinction, viz., that proper names do not have descriptive backing, and that there are contingent a priori truths. He draws our attention to predicative occurrences of proper names, in the 149 pp.…

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Titolo
Modality Reference and Sense An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
Autore
Sitansu S Chakravarti
Editore
Munshiram Manoharlal
Anno di pubblicazione
2001
Condizione
New
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
812151021X
ISBN 13
9788121510219

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